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2003ref. DADAX0810945150Brand: Harry N. Abrams 2003-09-01. First Edition. hardcover. New. 11.50x0.50x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Harry N. Abrams hardcover
ref. 122379Paris A. Capendu. S.d. c.1880. 12 pages entoilées. 29x225 Cm. Couverture en couleurs signée à la fin Emrik & Bingen Haarlem. Coins et coiffes émoussés. Les grandes images en chromolithographie tirées sur papier entoilé pour résister aux petites mains racontent aux enfants qui savent à peine lire des anecdotes sur l'ami fidèle et utile à l'homme passant en revue : les chiens de compagnie les chiens secouristes de berger de chasse et de cirque. Album bien conservé. Paris, A. Capendu. S.d. (c.1880). unknown
1938ref. 325170New York: Haper 1938. First Edition. 360pp. 8vo. Cloth. VG in VG pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. 360pp. 8vo. A Harper "Find" novel about the circus inscribed on ffep to the author's parents by the author. Haper unknown
1931ref. 20512New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1931. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Binding soiled some light soiling of a few pages else a very good copy. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs. 8vo. Inscribed on the free endpaper "Four Circus Guys are better any day than Four Hawaiians-So step Closah-h-h Friends! This book is inscribed by Courtney Ryley Cooper world's imfamous clown and worse writer to Eddie Nemo world's infamouser laugh eradicator thence to Leonard Traube late very late of the Great European Circursions and finally to the only good guy in andon the lot=Joe Cook. Rain and Shine Boys! Two count 'em Two performances daily so Hold yo' Hosses the Elephants are Coming-g-g! " Captain Dutch Ricardo Alfredo Codona the Wallenda family Lillian Leitzel among other circus names are quoted described and in some case biographical information supplied. Inscribed. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1709ref. 6585London: Henry Hills 1709. Piracy of the First Edition printed in the same year. 16 pp. Catalogue of Hill's Poems on p. 16. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Fine. Piracy of the First Edition printed in the same year. 16 pp. Catalogue of Hill's Poems on p. 16. 1 vols. 8vo. Foxon B527.9 [Henry Hills] unknown
1932ref. 21628New York: Macmillan Company 1932. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan illustrated cloth original illustrated dust jacket. Some rubbing and fraying of extremities of cloth short tears along edges of jacket inner hinges separated library stamps and card else a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For the members of the Boys Club of New York in the fond hope they may enjoy reading this partial record of my happy past. 'Uncle ' Bob Sherwood Last of Barnum's Clowns. New York City 1934". Macmillan Company unknown
1895ref. 37701Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1895. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original white cloth upper board pictorially stamped in gilt and polychrome silk endpapers. One small spot to lower board small book label to front pastedown else a crisp fine copy of this scarce and desirable work on circus athletes freaks and itinerant performers. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber unknown
1945ref. 053332USA: Ringling Bros. Circus. ca. 1940s 1945. No Binding. Very Good. Original b/w printed photograph signed by Ella Mills. 13x9 cm. Signed and inscribed by Mills. Ringling Bros. Circus., [ca. 1940s] unknown
1960ref. 23867United Kingdom 1960. ALBUM. Very good condition. An impressive British album of circus performer photographs including 3 of the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus and images of some famous traveling menageries including Bostock & Wombwell's and Mander's Menagerie as well as acts many with manuscript captions. The album with front cover label reading "Stourpaine Bushes '74 Site and Vehicle Caravan". Stourpaine Bushes was the site in Dorset England where the Great Dorset Steam Fair took place starting in 1969. Many performers identified with captions including: Temple Mead Bristoff "The Cumberlands"; Vaclav Zelenka & Specially Constructed Trampoline; The Brockways Masters of Agility Balance and Comedy on Bicycles; Sally & Kevin McGrath Kevin the runner up in World Professional Skating Championship; Bert Stevenson & Joe Marshall"; "The Three Edigehs ; Jousson Bros Gerard & Philippe; Joe Jackson Jnr"; Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie famous menagerie founded in 1810 including images of the three menagerie wagons "Rajah" "Pedro" and "Nero" with images showing drivers staff and children; the late Billy Smart & Sons; Jimmy Kaye's Freak Show; Mander's Family on the front of their "Grand Star Menagerie" the family in front of the huge caravan; this Menagerie was founded by William Mathers in the 1860s; he was considered the greatest showman of his day; and Harry Cody's Circus Front. Other images include 24 photographs of the trope performing on the rink ice in an elaborate ice shows; Lou Jacobs clown Gunther Gebel Williams Mani Niedermeyer with Polar bear Le Chabre Dorellos Sisters the Breuer Troop Trio Findai Berosini & Chimps "Franz Krefts brown bear the most difficult & dangerous animals to train"; Werner & Denyse Muller; Lucien Meyer's Skating Chimpanzees; and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey's Elephants rehearsal at Louisville". A mix of original b&w snap shots and stock photographs some in color. The album 12 x 10 ½" bound in yellow cloth with cord tie paper title laid down at front cover. 78 photographs laid down ranging in size from 10 x 8 to 3 ½ x 4 1/2 unknown
ref. BN608013Wir sind unterwegs / Besuch auf dem Rummelplatz /Besuch im Circus /Auf dem Spielplatz /Besuch im Zoo. Mit Fensterstanzungen: Wir sind unterwegs: . dem Spielplatz. Gucklochbilderbuchserie Wir sind unterwegs / Besuch auf dem Rummelplatz /Besuch im Circus /Auf dem Spielplatz /Besuch im Zoo. Mit Fensterstanzungen: Wir sind unterwegs: . dem Spielplatz. Gucklochbilderbuchserie Wir sind unterwegs / Besuch auf dem Rummelplatz /Besuch im Circus /Auf dem Spielplatz /Besuch im Zoo. Mit Fensterstanzungen: Wir sind unterwegs: . dem Spielplatz. Gucklochbilderbuchserie unknown
ref. 698608736Bloomsbury Publishing . Other. New. pp. xii 258 Bloomsbury Publishing unknown
1949ref. ABE-14965018467891949 EXTREMELY RARE Circus programme from 1949. Superb full colour cover illustration and a full colour Ovaltine ad on the back. Many black and white photos of the acts a map on how to get there and numerous other ads and details about the performances on offer. A wonderfully well preserved copy obviously stored for all these years with great care and it looks like the only available copy. Language: eng. Soft cover. Fine. paperback
1923ref. 63201New York: George H. Doran 1923. 8vo. xiv 337 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous illustrations plates photos. Gray publisher’s cloth red lettering minor dustsoiling & slight foxing to fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. cover art by James Montgomery Flagg minor dustsoiling rubbing faint stain soiling to spine still VG-/G- copy. First edition of this thrilling and inspirational story of the famed pioneering journalist publicist for P.T. Barnum Circus the Olympic Music Hall agent for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit and more. She represented Al Jolson Will Rogers Lillian Russell and many others. In 1919 she lost her life savings to a bad investment and was confined to a hospital for 5 years in cast and braces because of a paralyzing back injury. This inspirational story was written with one hand holding a pencil and moving over a pad of paper while flat on her back. Illustrations were contributed to this memoir by Rube Goldberg James Montgomery Flagg Tony Sarg Thornton Fisher Ed Hughes and others. Scarce in dustjacket. George H. Doran, hardcover
1931ref. 62105New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam Inc. 1931. 8vo. 183 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher’s cloth lettering in black photo-illustrated endpapers minor scuffing edgewear w/ d.j. cover art photo of Betty Boyd Bell w/ circus elephant chipping & tear to head of spine corner still VG-/G- copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce circus memoir ghost-written for 11-year-old Betty Boyd Bell 1920-1978 by Janet Mabie who at the time was a staff writer for Putnam’s and also preparing Amelia Earhart’s “Last Flight” from her in-flight notes. Bell’s father Floyd Bell was the publicity director for Ringling Bros. Circus and the young girl prepared scrapbooks took photos wrote down her short notes and even met President Calvin Coolidge during her Circus adventures. Betty herself would later dabble in radio spots after attending Choate and LaSalle Junior College working in public relations where she met and married Craig Barry in 1944 marketing analyst for General Electric. Scarce in original dustjacket. Brewer, Warren & Putnam, Inc., hardcover
1936ref. 56663Bristol: Arrowsmith 1936. 8vo. 144 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illusts. Orange cloth black lettering w/ d.j. cover art photo of author lettering & decoration in black & orange minor darkening to spine slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition of this famed memoir by the circus promoter and founder of the Zoo Park at Maidstone at one time one of the largest privately owned collections of exotic animals in Britain. He supplied animals to theatres pageants films circuses and more and was a major benefactor to Maidstone establishing the Tyrwhitt-Drake Mseum of Carriages. Arrowsmith, hardcover
1930ref. 54026Petersburg VA: Carl J. Lauther Amusements ca. 1930. 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. With three photo illustrations self-printed softcovers fold creases minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG exemplar. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional pamphlet for the hermaphrodite sideshow featuring “Aileen” who was born in California in 1907 raised as a girl until puberty when only one side developed a female breast and other side developed as man and appears to have dressed primarily as a man although on occasion as a woman for his/her amusement. Later she would often appear with another “hermaphrodite” in the Lauther sideshows who appeared under the name Claude. After World War II the Lauther b. 1888 sideshows would become the staple acts for the Cetlin-Wilson Circus whose winter quarters were in Petersburg VA. Generally the “hermaphrodites” were female impersonators often with deformed genitalia such as prolonged clitoris or misshapen penis creating the illusion of a double-sex and these acts proved notably popular and profitable. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Hartzman American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers 2006; Alison Oram Her Husband was a Woman! Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern Popular Culture 2007. Carl J. Lauther, Amusements, paperback
1912ref. 53602New York: H.N. Tiemann Co. 4 East 30th St. March 1912. One silver gelatin photo. 7.5 x 8.5 in. w/ embossed photographer’s stamp at lower left corner pencil annotations on verso of photo 1 corner w/ very slight loss still VG image with bright strong contrast. This image depicts the famed Renaissance Revival structure based on the Moorish Giralda Tower in Spain at Fifth & Madison Ave. in March 1912. Designed by Stanford White for McKim Mead & White this historic venue included the largest amphitheater in America equipped with a tank for aquatic shows a rooftop theatre cabaret restaurant and concert hall. The Cleopatra spectacle featured 1500 performers including the African-American minstrel troop organized by James Wolfscale featuring his three sons and the rest of the musicians mounted on camels playing their instruments. The show which ran from March 23 - April 22 1912 is perhaps best remembered for the widely reported suffrage rally held by 75 women circus performers of the world’s first “Circus Suffrage Society” and notably snubbed by the socialite Suffrage Movement leaders including Harriet Stanton Blatch. Led by Josie De Mott a bareback trick rider acrobat Zella Florence and included women animal trainers wire walkers hand balancers dancers acrobats and the renowned female Hercules -- Katie Sandwina. This Madison Square Garden was demolished in 1924 after the New York Life Insurance Co. which held the mortgage built their landmark Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building and another Madison Square Garden venue was opened on 8th Ave. between 49th and 50th. See: Guide to the H.N. Tiemann & Co. Photograph Collection 1880-1916 New York Historical Society 2013; Abbot & Seroff Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows pp. 166-169; Circus Activism: Barnum’s Female Stars Demand Right To Vote Name Baby Giraffe ‘Miss Suffrage’ at Madison Square Garden Bowery Bows 2012. H.N. Tiemann Co., [4 East 30th St.], unknown
1946ref. 53518Kewanee IL: Bob Parkinson Box 42 ca. 1946. Tall 8vo. 7.25 x 11.25 in. 24 pp unpaginated. thick cardstock w/ die-cut window slots for photos framed in green paper w/ 47 photos inserted sized from 3.25 x 4.75 in up to 4 x 5 in. a few mounted some w/ stamps on versos a few w/ pencil annotations some tipped-in a few mounted on sheets and inserted typed price list and ordering instructions on front pastedown listing many of the photos. Green linen white lettering stamped on front cover slightly shaken some rubbing edgewear still VG exemplar. Very rare photo sample catalogue assembled probably in the 1940s by Bob Parkinson noted circus collector and former director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center. The typed price list details the sets of images for sale such as the four photos from glass plate negatives of the Forepaugh Sells Bros. 1898 parade including images of steam calliope and 4 horse team bandwagon and 20 horse team elephant line-up followed by 2 blocks of close order units and more. In addition there are many images of 1908 and 1910 Ringling Bros. circus parades including views of the “Swan” Bandwagon and entire 24 horse team “Persia” tableau and 24 pony team side view “Egypt” tableau with the 16 camel team the entire elephant line-up riders and more. In addition there are added photos of wagons from the Al G. Barnes Circus Cole Bros. Circus later absorbed by Bailey and then Ringling Bros. as well as 101 Ranch Wild West Shows later circus parades in the 1920s the unloading of circus wagons off the Wisconsin Central Railroad flatbed cars loading docks and more. Parkinson explains that his sets for sale from $ 1.35 to $ 6.00 for all of them are taken directly from original glass plate negatives and that he is not charging much more than the printing costs and only trying to recoup his original considerable expense in purchasing the original negatives. Parkinson 1923-1991 began collecting as early as 1936 when he purchased his first Ringling-Barnum Bros. program and followed every circus show within striking distance of Decatur IL. After starting work as an insurance adjustor in 1946 he continued to chase buy & occasionally sell Circus related material assembling a massive collection of field show newspaper ads and was hired as the director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center in Baraboo WI from 1965 until his death. It was renamed the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center the same year. Bob Parkinson, Box 42, unknown
1881ref. 53115Munich: Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman 1881. Folio. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black w/ decorated woodcut-engraved borders. With 36 pen & ink sketch plates tipped-in to 28 thick paper boards each w/ red woodcut-engraved borders & red lettering in lower fore-edge of plate. Original blue-gray pictorial publisher’s cloth folding portfolio elaborate gilt & black lettering & illustration of horse trainer raising horses up on their hind legs decorative endpapers binder’s tick of G. Fritsche Book binder Leipzig on lower front pastedown minor rubbing very minor shelfwear slight toning to text leaves a couple very small closed tears repaired w/ archival repair tape at fore-edges still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated homage to the 19th-century circus horse trick riders jugglers clowns and trapeze artists. All of the sepia-tinted plates have been executed with great precision and energy displaying a tremendous vitality and talent. Lang 1838-1891 studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich studied horses in the veterinary schools and stud farms of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. He traveled extensively and his circus illustrations have become quite desirable by enthusiasts. Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman, hardcover
1931ref. 49819Cleveland OH: The Harter Publishing Co. Educational Publishers 1931. 4to. 4 folding poster leaves 36 x 12 in. printed in black with brown colour printed the posters. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Sampson back cover art contains colour suggestions for the four posters minor edgewear creasing four posters neatly stapled to back cover still VG copy. First edition of this fantastic activity book intended to provide children with a box of crayons or watercolours large simple drawings many happy hours of colouring and enjoyment. These were intended to be hung as a twelve-foot frieze on the wall of the play room bedroom or classroom. Sampson was also known for her 1933 Aesop silhouette book as well as her charming Mother Goose Posters in 1925. No copies located in Worldcat. The Harter Publishing Co., Educational Publishers, paperback
1943ref. 47202Dallas TX: Harben-Spotts Co. Inc. 1943. 8vo. 160 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous illustrations. Green cloth black lettering slight scuffing front cover w/ d.j. minor toning to spine slight dustsoiling VG/VG- copy. First edition of this informative biography of the famed Circus Queen who with her husband formed the Bailey Family Troupe served as a spy for Generals John Bell Hood and Jubal Early during the Civil War and later organized the Bailey Circus which played all over Texas. Scarce in dustjacket. Harben-Spotts Co., Inc., hardcover
2009ref. 40957Cologne: Taschen 2009. Folio. 383 1 pp. Over 450 colour and blk & wht illusts. photos. Red illust. boards slght bmpng hd & ft of spine w/ d.j. VG/F. First B&N edition of this lavish history of the American circus creating at the end of the 19th century the largest show-biz the world had ever seen. Included are iconic images from such famed photographers as Whitman Glasier Edward Kelty Mathew Brady Cornell Capa Wloker Evans Weegee Lisette Model Stanley Kubrick and more. Taschen, hardcover
ref. 1845924568.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. #[36902]Paris Cinemato 1968. Large coloured poster by Guy Lécureux. Ca. 158 x 116 cm. The illustrious family Rancys produced a show called ''Féerie à Sumatra and 15 years later they took up this magical name by offering in 1968 a Féerie au Nepal. This production quite similar to the previous one included seventeen paintings one hundred and twenty costumes sets by Simonne L'Hermitte. Forty artists including Sabine Rancy "The Princess Shera" Catherine Allarion "The Goddess Ellora" Catherine Muller "The White Slave" Jeannine Fratellini "The Goddess Poona" Dany Renz "The Prince of Nepal" Fernand Donnet "The Maharajah of Assam" and Joe Bill "The Grand Vizier Zadji" were in this review with the other artists of program 68. - Small tear at top otherwise fine. unknown
ref. E-2-77483847362616Very Good. Flawless disc alternative cover art. unknown
